[arch-general] Java 7 is now in [community-testing] and needs testing.

KESHAV P.R. skodabenz at gmail.com
Wed Jun 29 03:45:21 EDT 2011


On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 07:47, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Thomas Dziedzic <gostrc at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > The only program that doesn't work with Java 7 afaik is minecraft, the
>> > specific problem can be tracked here:
>> >
>> http://getsatisfaction.com/mojang/topics/minecraft_doesnt_work_with_java_7
>> > Hopefully we can have enough users complaining that the devs will take
>> > notice.
>>
>> Replacing the 32-bit libraries with their 64-bit copies, and running
>> minecraft with LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/java/jre/lib/amd64"
>> makes it work properly here.
>>
>
> Awesome! I'm now fully on java 7 :)
>
> I would like to hear about anyone else's experience also which will give me
> some more feedback.
>
> Cheers!
>

Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but is this about the binary
jre/jdk releases or the open source openjdk. I currently have openjdk6
(and icedtea-web) installed in my system (x86_64) but did not find an
equivalent package for Java 7. Thanks in advance.

Regards.

Keshav


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